Korean War POW's remains return home

1:16 AM,
Jul. 28, 2013

Sgt. Clement Thibodeaux Jr. died as a POW in North Korea.

Written by

Evan Moore
emoore@dailyworld.com

On Friday, the remains of Clement Thibodeaux Jr. were flown from North Korea to New Orleans and sometime this fall they will be interred with those of his great grandfather in the little cemetery at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church in Church Point.

It will be more than six decades since Thibodeaux enlisted in the U.S. Army at 17, more than six decades since he starved to death in a Chinese prisoner of war camp in Korea at 18. ...